May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 76

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HINE, LEWIS W. (1874-1940)
Family group at Ellis Island (with immigrants behind a hurricane fence). Silver contact print, 4 3/4x5 3/4 inches (12.1x17.1 cm.), with a Hine Photo Company, Yonkers, N.Y. hand stamp and numeric notations, in ink and in pencil, on verso. 1905-12

Additional Details

with--A pair of uncredited photographs, the first depicting a teacher and students (in front of the Ethical Culture School?), and the second a boudoir card of Ellis Island from afar. Silver prints, 3x5 1/4 and 4 1/2x7 1/2 inches (7.6x13.3 and 11.4x19.1 cm.); the second is mounted. Circa 1905.
From the Estate of Susan H. Clay, who worked for the King Library Press at the University of Kentucky, and mounted a show of Lewis Hine's and Augustus Sherman's photographs at the Skydome Gallery.